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Next Marketing Opportunity -Facebook & Social Media

2010-09-21T07:44:00.000-07:00

Facebook and Social Media - The Next Marketing Opportunity

Marketing as an activity is all about reaching the right customers with the right products, and the result sought is delighted customers who are more than willing to open their purses wide enough to boost your revenues. For many years, marketers stalked their target customers through various means and by trying to get their message across to spread awareness about their wares.

Traditional Means of Communication

Traditionally, marketing communications were conducted via print, broadcast and such traditional media through disruptive advertising, where advertisements appear in between the content of interest for the customer.

Traditional media does give a large reach to a marketer with its programming of mass appeal. However, the wastage is equally high, since a large portion of the audience would belong to a different segment than the one that is to be targeted by the marketer.

Enter Social Media and the Internet

The revolution stirred by the internet as a medium took place because of the fact that it is highly personalized and provides more content on-demand than any other available medium. Social sites proliferated far and wide in their usage for a few simple reasons:

The power to create and distribute content is equally available to every user, irrespective of him/her being a customer or a marketer. In the earlier forms of media, that power rested with the editorial staff of the channel or the advertiser, but hardly ever with the user.
The medium is completely personalized, and a user can create or join groups and further create content based on what he/she likes.
Opinions are free and fair. This is one reason why social media is of utmost concern to marketers, since buying decisions are no more influenced as much by advertisements. The traditional word-of-mouth marketing approach has grown leaps and bounds on social networks.

Facebook – At the Center of Social Media

With 500 million (and growing) unique users worldwide, Facebook is the number one social networking site in terms of activity and subscriptions. What started as a garage initiative by Mark Zuckerberg has now become the biggest phenomenon on the internet.

A user interface that allows for quick communication and the ability to create fan pages and groups at the click of a mouse button are what make Facebook extremely popular. Another important reason for its immense popularity is the wide variety of social applications that have been developed and made available within the Facebook environment.

These applications can allow users and friends to do joint activities like playing games that run endlessly, sharing photos, videos, and web links, and many more.

How does this help a marketer?

Traditionally, media plans were drawn to include television channels, publications, or any other media that can grab maximum eyeballs and effectively reach a selected target audience. The science of segmentation and targeting has become only more accurate in the case of social media.

Facebook provides a wide variety of avenues to communicate with the audience, which opens up an entirely different world of possibilities to have a fruitful dialogue with customers. Some of these methods used popularly by marketers are:

Advertising: The first opportunity, which is the most obvious one, is advertising on Facebook. The difference, however, is the fact that you can create your own advertisement in a matter of minutes and also specify the details of your target group in terms of demographics and types of discussions where you want your advertisement to appear.
Fan Pages: Facebook allows every brand, as well as individual users, to create fan pages for their favorite celebrities and their own homegrown businesses. Large brands have also created their official pages on Facebook that have a huge, immediate fan following around the world. The fan page has immense utility to convey first hand information about the brand and also to collect immediate and frank feedback from your customers.
Branded applications: One of the most effective ways to engage a user toward your brand is by creating an application; this could be a game or a contest, with your branding coming across subtly through it.

What makes Facebook even more exciting is the way it allows you to target your communication sharply just to the customer segment you want to attract. It also provides analytics and page insights that give good feedback and measurement on the activity done.

The options provided by Facebook can be creatively explored and used judiciously for bringing about maximum benefits to any brand.

However, while doing all this, you need to be aware of the fact that customers have an equal say and have the ability to respond immediately to any of your actions with a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Availing the service of a social media consultant to work out a social media strategy may be required so that your efforts will not be in vain.

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2010-09-16T10:33:00.000-07:00

Presently, I am a bit inspired by the great outcome of my Twitter experience, where I meet many different intellectuals from whom I certainly owe some great tips on how to grow my online presence at a very amazing speed... Mostly, when I am not posting tweets, I usually spend time reading from their blogs and gaining more knowledge from their expertise and thereby knowing more how to communicate effectively each time. There instances that I simply reply to some tweets or simply re-Tweet those that caught my attention. Hahaha ... boy, am I being hooked already?

Oh yeah I definitely love Twitter, and it's been a year and a half now since I started to have a Twitter account and this time I wanted to thank you all guys who has been very kind and are all good friends to me. That because of you all, I happen to maintain my position as one of the top ten tweeterers at the Maryland Twitter Directory. Yes...! This is really one great opportunity to connect and I do appreciate you all who keep following my tweets. Twitter and Facebook has been the two big Social Sites of my daily routines since then, and has been delighted to endorse some company or businesses directly from my favorite MyLikes.

There is really no secret at all to that, I just figured that why not make something out of those efforts to be an active on Twitter and on Facebook. Oh yeah...!!!! you too can make some great amount of money from your accounts on Facebook as well as from your Twitter... Well, the system that Mylikes has set up is so easy to follow and you will then also be hooked just like me once you get used to it. Simply update your profile, about your interest and you will then be offered by some company to make some tweets for them. Should I say, just consider it as an endorsements for their business, and they all are willing to pay you for your efforts by doing those tweets for them.

If you are having fun on what we do on Facebook and Twitter, now it's been on a next level only when you decided to use some applications of your choice. There are lots of them out there, and I am concentrating mostly on MyLikes simply because of their very effective and very timely compensation plan. They are paying every Friday for all accumulated earnings that exceeds $2.00.... that means it is a very reasonable amount to reach in just few days and your money earned will be paid to you through your Alertpay account. You wouldn't believe it now maybe, but once you just start doing so this minute, to join MyLikes you will see how easy it really was to make real good money doing same thing you've been doing already, and that is making or posting Tweets. Guess what? I am presently making a minimum average of $2.50 every Friday, ha ha ha .... Yes, making some money while having some fun and enjoying my Twitter and Facebook routines.

Hey there...! Once again, I really appreciate you all for helping be on top ten at the Maryland Twitter Directory... and for those of you who has not done yet, here is my twitter:

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Thank you so much folks for reading this far and Good Luck everyone....

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2010-09-13T21:29:00.000-07:00

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2010-09-02T16:11:00.000-07:00

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2010-09-01T19:30:00.000-07:00

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2010-08-19T17:35:00.000-07:00

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2010-08-18T19:22:00.000-07:00

Yesterday when I am consistently browsing on different websites to earn more credits from twiends have come to look at the importance of backlinks which I ignore for a long time. Now I started to be active on selecting some reliable sites to have their links on my blog.

Well, it does not necessarily need lots of time doing it and I started on puting in together some of I carefully selected like that of Celtic Cornwall. It does a have a clean script that generate an auto backlink to my blog and my site site in plurkaholic. Should I say therefore, that "backlinks on getting more followers is a must" if you would want to grow your audience on a steady rate.

It was really great that I then have more followers coming in both on my blog here and my community in Ning. Yes it is a win win situation, doing a favor to each of the sites you selected and keeping a link to them so as to get back some steady flow of traffic back to your site.... not much in an instant but will surely be rewaeding on the long run as visitors might have the chance to find your blogs anytime on other person's websites.

August 25th, 2010 update:
... I have to add this one very important that I have read awhile ago please be patient on reading on to that as well so might find it helpful for you too.
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2010-08-17T18:45:00.000-07:00

Since about November of 2009 when I happen to cross about from one online friend's activity and has made me joined Plurk, I was then hooked onto it each day. I enjoy exchanging insights in either formal or somewhat informal on a regular basis... have times that I almost forgot to eat dinner because of one very lively chat on my timeline. Perhaps, that brings one unique interaction between members, though messages are limited to 140 characters.

Different friends coming in... more and more each week, mostly a request asking me, well that is because I have a great taste in friends if I may say so. Responses to my threads are mostly humors, fun and laughter. Nevertheless, there would sometimes, few of which are too emotional in nature, that it reaches high number in the long run... it does become so active where it last for days or a week.

Some experiences that will be treasured really... and just imagine the fact that they were only active online friends that never been met yet in person or a relative or long time friend at a distance. Too many times that a conversation become so interesting and you would want to get back to that topic everyday. From that, and due to the very limited 140 characters per message there come some extensions like what we have there in plurkaholic.

Love, heartache, inspirations, problems, anything. Those are few of the real instances taking place. Lots of different kinds of experiences, bringing joy and tears as well.... never ignore, but it is a journal in our daily lives...

This short blog was written and inspired by: Liane and Margie.... thank you all for reading this far on my simple view about friendship.

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2010-08-13T18:04:00.000-07:00

When I got home around 5pm and check on my Ning site at plurkaholic I found out that we already reach 150 members. Then it pop into my mind that I needed to maintain my subscription on Ning Plus because the membership is growing at steady rate. So what I do is login to sponsoredtweets and withdraw my earnings there to fund my paypal then make an update on Twitter about it.

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2010-08-08T17:39:00.001-07:00

In about first five days since the contest been started Liane' official entry has maintain top three positions and is now presently the *leading*... As a simple way of appreciation I then post it on MyLikes ~> *Ocean park - Plurkaholics*

Fun has just begun folks, come and check it out and it is never been too late to join the Photo Contest... You will surely love how easy it is to reach top three if you will come and try it now... Absolutely no entry fee, and you might end up to win some cash prizes at the end of the competition.

Hurry, just join, activate your profile, upload photos, then wait for the admin to select from your uploads an official entry from there.... Good luck and see you there.

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2010-08-07T08:12:00.000-07:00

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2010-08-06T18:47:00.000-07:00

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2010-08-06T18:30:00.000-07:00

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2010-08-04T10:42:00.000-07:00

There can be no better than sharing what you have, that is the main idea behind this just started Photo contest in plurkaholic. Well, this is just the beginning and I mean it, because if it brings forth some great feedback then surely we will conduct a series of this kind of competition in the coming months.

Imagine, while you are busy on your daily day job or been away from home, your close friends are having access to your shared photo journals, where they can directly or indirectly leave you some message in a form of a comment. Isn't it great that each time you got home you will then have some thing to read from your friends or relatives around the world. Those messages maybe from distant love ones that you haven't got any communications with for quite sometime. Oh yeah it simply was a word of mouth that will lead them to your photos being shared.

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That would be all for now folks and remember we can all make a difference simply by sharing what we have, good day everyone see you there and happy uploading.

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2010-08-02T21:42:00.000-07:00

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2010-08-02T21:19:00.000-07:00

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*Liane is presently enjoying her shrimp*

Next Marketing Opportunity -Facebook & Social Media

Maryland Twitter Directory

Join GDI under my Team, I'll pay your 1st Month subscription

Newest member has been featured

Most fastest & efficient way to flood traffic to your website thru Twitter

backlinks on getting more followers is a must

experiences, a journal

Just encountered this one couple hours ago.

Liane's official photo entry is now Leading

the newest member is a lovely dancing queen

A love in her eye

August 3rd birthday celebrant

Liane is presently enjoying her shrimp